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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "(HELB), to assist Kenyan students from poor backgrounds to go through higher education. If you talk to lawyers, just as it was submitted on this Floor by Sen. Orengo, Justice Odunga has written one of the most brilliant judgments you can ever find in the High Court. Well- reasoned and written judgments comparable to a leading judge, Judge Odenyo in the legal profession. The same can be said of the other judges. Judge Weldon Korir was a pioneer in the judicial review and constitutional division. I have appeared before Justice Korir and lost some cases. It was not because he had any biasness against me, but because I did not have a good case. I cannot have anything personal against him. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I feel the pain the way Sen. Orengo said. If you have unknown allegations hanging over your head and you are a judge dispensing justice for a period of over two years, it is the kind of torture you do not want to subject any human being to. Let me state on the Floor of this House that we will one day in our lifetime, need a Judiciary that is fair and ready to dispense justice in a fair manner. That is what some of us are trying to fight for today. Long after we have left this House; long after those who are serving in the Cabinet have left; long after even H.E. the President has left office, he still needs an independent Judiciary that is guided by not any other consideration, but by the need to dispense justice in a fair manner. I am proud that the Senators who spoke today are unanimous that they want to defend the independence of the Judiciary. We have examples that we can learn from. In the USA in 1804, President Thomas Jefferson was elected through a very popular mandate. He had 162 Electoral Colleges out of a possible 176. That is one of the highest ever. However, when he went into office, he had a bone to pick with the Judiciary. President Thomas Jefferson thought that because he had control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, he could engineer an impeachment of some of the judges in the Supreme Court of America whose opinions he did not like. He tried with a District Judge and that worked. Then he moved to the Supreme Court, where he wanted Justice Samuel Chase to be impeached. He had the numbers from his Democratic Party. He wanted to remove Justice Chase because he was appointed by President George Washington because he thought the President did not make a wise choice."
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